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Maintaining a joomla website - Canberra
This document discusses best practices for maintaining a Joomla website on an ongoing basis. It addresses common challenges clients and developers face, such as clients not seeing the value in maintenance or developers not having enough time. It provides recommendations on how much to charge for maintenance, key tasks to perform like backups, software updates, and monitoring. The document stresses the importance of maintenance for security and performance, and provides suggestions for tools that can help automate tasks and demonstrate value to the client.
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- 1. Maintaining a JoomlaWebsite Canberra Joomla User Group Presented by Tim Plummer
- 2. • Client doesn’tsee value in ongoing maintenance • I don’t have time to maintain the site • How much should I charge? • What regular tasks should I do? Maintenance challenges you may face
- 3. What if youdon’t maintain a site? Site becomes vulnerable Site gets hacked Angry customer Joomla gets bad reputation
- 4. Educate them asto why website needs to be maintained • Keep website operating in peak condition • Patch security vulnerabilities • Disaster recovery Client doesn’t see value Would you buy a car and never service it?
- 5. • There aretools available that can help automate some of the maintenance tasks and save you time • Charge enough to make it worth your while • Consider leveraging cheaper offshore resources I don’t have time
- 6. Different ways toprice • Include maintenance in project cost • Annual maintenance percentage (eg. 10% of project cost) • Fixed monthly rate How much should I charge?
- 7. • Daily offsitebackup • Disaster recovery plan • Software updates (core & third party extensions) • Website monitoring • Support What maintenance tasks should I do?
- 8. • PPC (PayPer Click) advertising • Content marketing / strategy • Social media campaigns What should I exclude?
- 9. • Akeeba Backupprofessional • Amazon S3 • Daily/weekly cron to trigger backup Daily offsite backups TEST YOUR BACKUP Untested = no backup
- 10. • In theevent of something going wrong, have a plan to restore backup and recover site Disaster recovery
- 11. • Keep Joomlacore version up-to-date • Keep extension versions up-to-date Software updates
- 12. • Do youbundle subscriptions in maintenance cost? – Client doesn’t need to worry about ongoing subscription costs for extensions used – Depending on licence, you may be able to use for other clients at no extra cost Software subscriptions
- 13. • Apply thelatest best practice recommendations • Can use tools to check basic settings Site audits
- 14. • Support tohelp client maintain content – some developers include up to 30mins per month in their maintenance fee Support
- 15. • Monitor whencore files changed • Is there an update available for an extension? • Uptime/downtime Website monitoring
- 16. • Most ofthese items, the client doesn’t have visibility of, so they may not feel they are getting value for money. • Monthly report showing what you have done/improved – Extensions updated – Average backup size – Other minor improvements Does client see value?
- 17. • Each month,focus on one small change to make all your client sites better – SEO improvement • update meta data • Add a sitemap • Update robots.txt – Security audit • Update/improve .htaccess What else can you do to add value?
- 18. • Watchful.li – Getnotified when core files changed – Get notified of extension updates – Single interface to update multiple sites – Site audit • Myjoomla.com – Security audit • BF SEO – Improve organic SEO Tools to make this easier
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